Beer bottle fight leads to 2 inch cut

PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- A fight between two roommates ended with one striking the other in the face with a beer bottle, police said.

Jose Lino Lopez, 45, was involved in a verbal argument with another tenant of a home on the first block of Hillside Avenue just after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night. Police said that Lopez grabbed the beer bottle and struck the other man in the side of the head. The victim suffered a 2 inch cut over his right eyebrow, and was treated at the University Medical Center at Princeton before being released.

Lopez, who had fled on foot, was located, arrested and charged with aggravated assault, police said. He was lodged in the Mercer County Correction Center in lieu of $20,000 bail.